Les differens caracteres des femmes du siecle avec La description de l'amour propre(Édition de 1694)
Publication type: Book
Author:Pringy (Madame de)
Scientific editor:Venesoen (Constant)
Abstract: At the heart of the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, Madame de Pringy is a moralist and analyzes several types of women—all guilty, according to her, of self-love. This treatise, of undeniable sociological value, restores a more balanced view of the social ferment of the late seventeenth century.
Keyword: Passion, Christian virtues, perfectibility, education, portrait gallery, Louis Bourdaloue, François de Sales, Jean de La Bruyère, Counter-Reformation, seventeenth-century literature